Why don't we treat our families as well as we do strangers?

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When people first meet another person they are on the best of behavior. Even if it is just an incidental meeting with no potential to become a relationship of any kind. Guys who don't open doors for their own wives or girlfriends will see some strange chick going in a door and they rush to open and hold the door for her. With strangers it is always "Please", "Thank you", "no problem". Yet when we go home to our families all of the common courtesy just goes out the window. We take our family and friends for granted too much. If we treated our people at home with the courtesy that we automatically give to strangers I guarantee you the divorce rate would go down, there would be less strife, stress, and negative interraction on the whole if people just treated everyone, especially the people they love, live with, and see every day, with courtesy and attention. Besides it is also a good thing to instill good manners in your children, who learn about relationships and how to treat their significant others of the future from watching you.